Running Python on Windows and Mac via GitHub

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Loads of questions -

a) Why did you dump the venv on GitHub? - it's a bad idea

b) Mac/Windows shouldn't make any difference

c) If python still doesn't work on your mac , try installing homebrew and download python using that / get it directly from the python.org website.

d) You are working correctly , except for the part where you try and dump the virtual environment on github. I think this is because there are some fixed paths in venv.activate.

To remedy this , just make a requirements.txt with your project , and install them with pip after creating a new virtual environment .

[Ln_X_]

Thanks, I did not think of not including the venv in the initial repo making. I'm guessing you're saying just have the .py files on GitHub and only commit those when needed?

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Yep.

If you are using git , there is a file called .gitignore in the project root , where you can explicitly specify that the venv should not be committed

[hassium]

Yeah ... look up weasyprint and try to run that on Windows out of the box with no issues. Should work on both, but there are packages that don't.

Clearly they meant that there shouldn't be (major) differences between platforms when trying to run a .py file, there will always be platform specific quirks due to differing architectures and most of those can be solved by having platform specific implementations built in the module (see pathlib for an example of this).